Four glass boxes hover over 1,000 feet in the air to give visitors an unparalleled view of Chicago.

This former football stadium seems almost abandoned but is still in use by the next generation of Scottish sports stars.

The heads of two giant mythological water horses honor Scotland's horselord past.

A statue in the heart of Edinburgh honors a bear that served in the Polish military during World War II.

A 18th century graveyard and its astonishing cortege of macabre iconography.

A New England-style lighthouse along California's beautiful Highway 1 gets a re-do.

Rodin's famous depiction of Dante's 'Inferno', amidst a sculpture garden of many of his other works.

This giant shopping mall still holds signs of its automotive past.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

The century-old bell and clock tower at UC Berkeley is the third-tallest in the world, and has fossils.

This subtle Berkeley paving stone actually marks off a lawless tube of air that extends into space.

A shape-shifting buy-sell-trade bookstore, born to Beatnik Era spirit.

The newsstand that never closes its doors—well, almost never.

The Flatiron Building's storied West Coast cousin is a lot more into religion.

Oakland's beautiful monumental cemetery.

An abandoned convention space that has been left to the homeless and the radical.

A massive ultra-modern church presents a science-fiction view of Catholicism's inclusive future.

This Oakland fairytale kingdom, fiercely devoted to childlike whimsy, was an early inspiration for Disneyland.

A mythical bird etched into the face of a rock doubles as the mascot for a nearby school.

Quirky water tower advertises the long-gone Brooks Tomato Products Co.

Fresh wooden posts have been added to ancient holes to recreate a primitive henge clock.